'Faded away': Expert despairs as Supreme Court ends 'glimmer of independence'

Any sign that the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court were interested in checking President Donald Trump's power have subsided, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate in a scathing roundup of the court's agenda this term.

He focused particularly on the abrupt heel-turn of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's third appointee.

His column follows the court's abrupt decision to allow the Trump administration to deport migrants to South Sudan, despite them never having been...